In all, about 2,000 wreaths were placed Saturday, Dec. 12, on the graves of veterans at Fort Custer National Cemetery, said Mike Sandstrom, commander of the South West Michigan Group of U.S. Air Force Auxiliary/Civil Air Patrol.
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"Fort Custer is one of two parks in Michigan that has designated sled dog trails," said Marti Ellerby, race coordinator at Fort Custer, one of five or six locations that M.U.S.H. has races at during the year that start in January.
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Voters in Galesburg-Augusta Community Schools rejected a $14 million bond issue for repairs and upgrades at their three school buildings, including a major renovation of the middle school.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Foundations Recovery Network has an agreement to buy Yarrow Golf & Conference Resort near Augusta and plans to turn it into a mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation center.
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Thirty one years ago on Memorial Day, Phil Rolffs decorated his father's grave at Fort Custer National Cemetery and noticed the barren resting places of 26 German prisoners of war. The following year, Rolffs and his wife, Gladys, returned to decorate the German prisoners' graves leaving one potted geranium near each tombstone. The act would become a Memorial Day tradition that lasted 30 years and ended in May.
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The Barn Theatre has announced its 2015 summer season, which will include family favorites such as "Mary Poppins" and rock musicals like "American Idiot" — and the return of Broadway's Tom Wopat in "The Will Rogers Follies."
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As of 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Galesburg-Augusta was about 1,300 votes ahead of Kalamazoo Central with Plainwell High School in third place and Delton-Kellogg High School in fourth place followed by Climax-Scotts High School, Comstock High School and Otsego High School.
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